Brispa Gallery at JUSTMAD 2026

Artist list

 Carlos Borau,  Soyoung Hyun,  ​Hyein Kim,  Jasper Nollet

Faithful to its curatorial line, situated at the intersection of art, object and corporeality, the gallery proposes an environment in which the mural and the wearable are not hierarchised but placed in dialogue. Painting constructs open narratives; ceramics activate organic volumes; sculpture modulates spatial perception; and jewellery introduces an intimate and performative dimension to the artwork that migrates onto the body.

Within this context, contemporary jewellery does not appear as an autonomous discipline, but rather as a sculptural practice at bodily scale. Carlos Borau’s pieces operate as micro-tectonic landscapes: fragments, faults, craters and eroded reliefs that transpose geological logic onto the surface of metal.
The coexistence of mural works and wearable pieces foregrounds a central question: what happens when sculpture leaves the plinth and is activated on the body? How does perception shift when the art object becomes intimate?

In the context of an art fair, contemporary jewellery introduces an intimate dimension. The work is not only observed but activated in contact with the body. Sculpture thus moves from the exhibition space into the personal experience of the wearer.

Carlos Borau’s series Craters I–VI (2025) and the works Major Fault I–II (2026) are made of silver and precious / semi-precious stones, yet their approach departs from traditional ornament. Irregular surfaces, asymmetrical volumes and stone settings evoke geological formations or eroded fragments.
In this sense, the proposal dialogues with the rest of the stand: if Hyein Kim’s painting constructs spatial narratives and Soyoung Hyun’s ceramics explore organic transformation, the jewellery condenses this tension at a micro scale, transferring the artistic experience to direct contact with the skin.

Hyein Kim develops fragmentary narrative universes in which image and materiality construct open-ended stories. Soyoung Hyun explores the transformation of organic forms through ceramics, navigating permanence and impermanence. Jasper Nollet uses ceramics as a medium through which to speculate on memory, archaeology and possible futures. Carlos Borau conceives the jewel as vestige and fragment: an intimate sculpture in which texture, erosion and relief activate a tactile and emotional experience.